FRANKFORT – While it has been anything but easy for our businesses during the last several years, they can point with pride to one thing: Their safety record is arguably the best it has ever been.

In 2009 – the latest year on record – workplace fatalities nationwide were at their lowest since records were first kept in 1992, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and there were nine percent fewer injuries on the job than there had been just the year before.